1779 in art
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Events from the year 1779 in art.
Washington at Princeton by Charles Willson Peale
President Molé Confronted by Insurgents by François-André Vincent
Washington Allston
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Washington Allston was an American painter and poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina. Allston pioneered America's Romantic movement of landscape painting. He was well known during his lifetime
1779 in art
…November 4 – Jan Willem Pieneman, Dutch historical painter (died 1853) November 5 – Washington Allston, American painter, the "American Titian" (died 1843) November 6 – Henry Pierce Bone, English enamel painter (died 1855…
Self-portrait, 1805 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Washington Allston Elijah in the Desert Google Art Project
Allston painted by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1818. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Landscape with Lake (1804)